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Finally, we have a download available.
You can go to this page microsoft.com/en/server-cloud/products/sql-server/ and scroll down to the section 'Technical Resources'. (NOT the section on the left called White papers).
Click on “SQL Server 2016 In-memory OLTP technical white paper” and you can open or save.
OR
You can ...

As a teacher, and also a student of languages, one issue that’s always fascinating to me is how people choose to shorten a compound, or multi-part, name. This is very problematic when the word is from another language. For example, we use the word latte in English as a short form of caffè latte, but we shorten it to just the ...

Just a quick note that my CTP3 paper has finally been published, and now I can start working on the final version!
Here’s the link:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/5/2/D52D374F-D442-4275-B570-0EB527102F4D/SQL_Server_In_Memory_OLTP_Internals_Overview_for_SQL_Server_2016_CTP3_EN_US.pdf
Enjoy!
~Kalen

I’ve done it again… I’ve neglected my blog so long that my name has been removed from the list of SQLBlog contributors on the right-hand side of the main page. So I need to fix that.
I have been accumulating a list of questions that have come up during my 5-day SQL Server Internals classes, that I cannot immediately answer. ...

Last week at the PASS Summit in Charlotte, NC, the update of my whitepaper for CTP2 was released.
The manager supervising the paper at Microsoft told me that David DeWitt himself said some very nice things about the technical quality of the paper, which was one of the most ego enhancing compliments I have ever gotten! Unfortunately, Dr. DeWitt ...

Douglas McDowell (EVP Finance) takes the stage (no kilt), and talks numbers. PASS has an impressive $1MM in reserves as a ''rainy day'' fund. Last fiscal year they spent $7.6MM on community; 30% of that was spent internationally.
Bill Graziano comes on (no kilt) to say goodbye and thanks to the outgoing board members, Douglas McDowell, Rob ...

Tech Ed isn’t even over yet, and my new Hekaton Whitepaper is already generating questions I can’t answer yet!
Here are the two questions that were in my inbox this morning: 1. The whitepaper says “There are other wait types, such as waiting for a log write to complete.” Does this mean that writing to the transaction log will be ...